Chapter 8

"Xiaotian, come back and have a rest!" Hearing Director Wu's greeting, Li Tian ran back to the rest area on the sidelines.

"Director Wu, you are here, what instructions and arrangements do you have?" Li Tian joked and took the mineral buffalo handed over to the coach.

"There are no arrangement instructions, but I'm just here to remind you that the regional selection competition for the 10th National Games is about to begin."

"Director Wu, are you worried about me? I have been waiting for this competition for four years! I have been preparing for all the preparations I should have done long ago!" In order to expose Li Tian's strength before it was too early and his training was unnecessarily disturbed, the coaches have never arranged a game for him in the past four years. Li Tian, ​​who agreed to join the track and field team just to participate in more competitions, has been holding back his energy during this period and wished he would pass the regional selection today and participate in the national finals tomorrow.

"I feel at ease with your strength, but I don't dare to guarantee your mentality. After all, you have never participated in a formal track and field competition. It would be bad if you lose your chain at that time. And I don't want you to fight all your strength in the selection competition. The national finals are our goal. If you are too popular, the media will annoy you, let alone train well. I want to know that there will be more than two months from the regional selection competition to the national finals in October. If you cannot train well during this period, your competition status will be difficult to adjust."

"I understand, I will save some strength during the competition! But you have signed up for so many events for me. If I pass the selection and enter the national finals, what if you say it is not completely attracted the attention of the media?" This time, Li Tian became the youngest and most interviewed contestants in this track and field trial. He signed up for seven competitions, including men's 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters, 1500 meters, 3000 meters and 5000 meters.

"That's impossible, but it's always a good thing to be low-key!" Director Wu was also a little helpless. He had long thought of these things. It was impossible not to attract the attention of Li Tian, ​​but he wanted to minimize this kind of attention. It seems that after the selection competition, we will find a more hidden training ground for Li Tian.

"Okay! I know how to do it." Li Tian nodded to Director Wu.

"Let's just practice here today! When you go back, you should pay attention to rest. Don't study too late. These last few days are the time for you to accumulate energy." Coach Xiao knew that Li Tian was very hard-working and his grades were excellent. He had to study for a while after training every day after returning home. Because the final exam was approaching, he was working harder.

"Well! Then I'll go back first. Director Wu and all the coaches are 88." Li Tian, ​​who was riding a bicycle, disappeared in front of everyone like a gust of wind.

"Xiaotian, Director Wu told you today! The selection competition is about to begin, and the registration list for participating will be reported!" Li Tian, ​​who was rare to go home early, sat in the living room and chatted with his family.

"I said that they helped me fill in seven projects. I am the one with the most projects reported in this competition!"

"Then you have to pay attention. I watched the schedule of the track and field competition, and the arrangement was relatively tight. How many events you have are connected, which is a major test for your physical fitness!" Zhao Qingguo felt that the schedule was not good for Li Tian.

"I know this, I will pay attention to saving my energy. Director Wu just told me not to fight all my strength, so as not to be too popular to cause trouble."

"That's good. Although you have been trained by a sports coach, your participating units are our sports school. As the representative of the sports school, your grades are also related to the school's honor."

"Dad, Xiaotian knows how to do it! He hasn't taken these small games seriously yet. Think about it, he is a person who broke the national record at the age of 11! What's there to worry about in the selection competition?" Zhao Rong next to him was very clear about Li Tian's strength. She had more confidence in Li Tian than Li Tian for herself.

"Ah! By the way, sister, we happened to start summer vacation on the day of the competition. Why don't you go to watch my competition together and bring your mom with you."

"Okay! OK! Then Dad, I'm going to go too. Speaking of which, I'm still Xiaotian's first coach. He can be discovered by this young lady!"

"Okay! The game is in City N anyway, and it's not far from this. Let's go and cheer for Xiaotian together." Zhou Ling smiled at the excited children, and agreed to take time to watch her son's game together.

A week later, six coaching staff members worked with Li Tian’s family and 10 people to head to N, the capital of Province G. Since Li Tianbao had many projects in this competition, in order to give him a good rest, Director Wu also booked a room for him in a four-star hotel near the competition venue, and was very thoughtful.

After arriving at the hotel, Li Tian and his party rushed to the comprehensive track and field stadium in N City. They arrived here one day early. Obviously, more players were much earlier than him. They had already started training in groups of three or three on the field, and most of the people in the stands were coaches of these athletes.

As soon as Li Tian stepped into the sports field, he attracted many people's curious attention, because the coaches here all came to the competition with one or several disciples, but they had never seen such a large group of men, women, and young and old. Zhao Rong's family wore casual clothes, and they knew they were not athletes, perhaps the athlete's family. Li Tian and the members of the coaching team wore uniform sportswear, and they seemed to know that they must be sportsmen, but there was only one young man who looked like an athlete at the age of 18 and 9, and the others were too old to be a player, and they looked more like coaches. If this is the case, then what kind of big figure is this young man with a background? One person brought a huge coaching team, and everyone speculated about Li Tian's identity.

"Xiaotian, go and try how the venue feels." The group of people didn't care about other people's surprise gazes. Coach Xiao patted Li Tian on the shoulder and said,

Nodded, Li Tian entered the field with his bag, put on his sneakers, started jogging, and felt the softness and flexibility of the plastic track in the field. He also carefully checked whether there were defects on each track while running. Every detail should not be neglected, because in the formal competition, perhaps these small problems will make you lose the chance to win.

"Hey! Lao Xiao? Isn't this Lao Xiao from the L Municipal Sports Committee? It's been a long time since I saw you." In the stands, the members of the coaching staff were discussing some competitions. Suddenly, a middle-aged man in his forties leaned over, and a proud young man was following behind him.

"Oh! It's Coach Wang! Long time no see, so you're still alive!" Coach Xiao didn't even want to hold hands with him, and said coldly. Coach Xiao and this coach Wang are two senior coaches from L and N City with rich experience in mid- and long-distance running events. They were always a pair of stadiums when they were young. In the regional selection match of the last Nth Games, the L mid- and long-distance running team led by Coach Xiao was defeated by the N City team brought by Coach Wang. Originally, victory or defeat on the field was common, but after the game, the man named Wang came to him to show off his power, which almost made Coach Xiao angry. He is still resentful and has no good face to him.

"Of course I'm still the same. I haven't seen you lead the team to participate in the competition in the past few years, nor have you heard from you. I thought you were going to go there! I didn't expect that I was sleeping on firewood and tasting gall! How about it, I have brought out a lot of 'good disciples' in recent years!" The surname Wang said with a slight smile.

"Ha, hehe! The high disciple didn't dare to say that, so he trained a young boy. He was still young and asked him to come to see the world. He was not as good as your coach Wang. I heard that he brought out another Jiang Feng in the past two years. Not long ago, he tied the national record at 1,500 meters. It's the young man behind you. It's really amazing!" Coach Xiao, who was still a little angry at the beginning, but when he thought that he had Li Tian's ace card in his hand, the anger in his heart was extinguished. He was too lazy to fight with the man surnamed Wang, but he was looking forward to whether he would still be so arrogant after the game.

"Where, where! This kid is too young, far from it, and he still needs to exercise well. Ha, ha, ha..." Although he said this, the smug expression and the unpleasant laughter made the little girl Zhao Rong very annoyed.

"Hmph! I'm so big, what's the point of showing a national record? Even if I break it, it's nothing great. If you have the ability to break a world record and show it to me, that's really amazing!" Coach Wang and Jiang Feng behind him changed their faces when he was snatched by Zhao Rong.

"Ha, hehe... Tong Yan Wuji, Tong Yan Wuji, children are ignorant, I'm sorry! Coach Wang, please don't mind." Zhao Qingguo apologized to Coach Wang and the other two on behalf of his daughter, and patted his daughter's head indulgently, without any blaming, and showed no sincerity. Not to mention that Coach Xiao is the coach of his adopted son, even if he is a colleague of the L Municipal Sports Committee, Zhao Qingguo firmly stands on his side.

"Hmph!" After snorting coldly, the two of them turned around and left with an angry look on their faces.

"Hmph! You will hum, and it will be uncomfortable to see this 'Mediterranean' and that stupid guy." Before Coach Wang could go far, Zhao Rong's words still vaguely reached his ears. When he heard Zhao Rong call him "Mediterranean", his face was bloated. As the saying goes, whether to hit someone in the face or not, what he hates the most is the fact that others say that he is bald.

"Hey! Sister, who makes you angry, I will teach you a lesson immediately." Li Tian happened to run back and asked when he saw Zhao Rong with an upset look on his face.

"Here! It's the 'Mediterranean' in front of him and the stupid man beside him. Isn't it a national record of 1,500 meters? He is so proud that he looks like the best in the world, showing off his might in front of us, and he gets angry when he sees me. Xiaotian must win when you compete with them, and then see what they have to say." Then Zhao Rong said what he had just now from beginning to end, still looking like he was angry.
Chapter completed!